Ghostface Killah and MF Doom
‘Victory Laps’
Limited Edition Picture Disc
Nature Sounds / Stones Throw Records
Finally, the highly anticipated collaboration between Stones Throws infamous metal face MF Doom and Wu-Tang Clans Tony Starks aka Ghostface Killah. Both artists have given a level of artistic merit to the presence of hip hop music and it’s a lovely experience to finally hear this single. The picture disc has the original single, a remix from MF Doom and Madlib and a special Serato mix that has the separate tracks available to mix through control tones and live scratch software. Nature Sounds is going all out with a limited edition vinyl pressing that comes as a picture disc and for good reason, this collaboration has been talked about and patiently awaited for too long now! Can’t wait to get my hands on this along with the full length when the label decides to press that up for all the fans out there. – Erik Otis
It was many years ago – 4, 5? – when DOOM was here in Los Angeles playing us a few tracks he’d just begun working on with Ghostface Killah. Like everyone else, we thought it was a great collaboration. And like everyone else, after the years began passing, we thought it would never happen.
Here it is: the first official release from DOOMSTARKS. This is a limited edition picture disc 12″ with “Victory Laps” on one side (Vocal, Remix, Instrumentals) backed with Serato Control Tones used to DJ with Serato Scratch Live software. Expected ship date is September 6-13.
EH sold over a million albums in the year of 2010 alone! Purchase the 7″ while copies are still available from Experience Hendrix HERE
Experience Hendrix has released a new single from the anthology that was released last year to honor the official Record Store day today. This single comprises the very popular track Fire which saw an alternate unreleased mix and now this entirely never before heard track Touch You. Recorded at the end of the Are You Experienced Sessions in December of 1967 at Olympic Studios, this is a really raw track with little layering. This is an instrumental track and shows Hendrix playing some incredible rhythm guitar. The world Noel Redding came from, British invasion sound, shows all over this piece along with a merge of his jamming style he was innovating and his own R&B influence. This is a sweet and short yet wild look into how explosive Hendrix was, even during his embryonic days of The Exprience and before things started to really cook up when he released Electric Ladyland and Axis: Bold as Love. Experience Hendrix have hours in the vaults and I am very happy to present this track at our site. Please note: I would like to give a special thanks to Hawkfan for being so immature and pushing me away from a community that was only sucking the energy out of Jimi Hendrix. It is because of him that these releases are so fresh in my mind again without all the pretentious garbage of expectations on what EH should release. EH is the best thing that has happened to Jimi’s image since his last authorized release.
~ Erik Otis
Touch You, by the Jimi Hendrix Experience, is the B-Side from the alternate recording of Fire released on Record Store Day (16th April) 2011.
Touch You is a previously unreleased track from the “Are You Experienced” recording sessions. It was recorded at the Olympic Studios in London on the 20th December 1967.
Grails has been one of my favorite post modern rock fusion groups, they always intrigue me with the type of subtle usage of world instrumentation with their blend of heavy doom style rock and meditative drop out moments. The site Brooklyn Vegan released a new track along with tracklisting from Grails upcoming full length abum fro Temporary Residence Limited expected for release in March of this year. Below is a video teaser released a month ago for Deep Politics. Download or listen to the new track “I Led Three Lives” and get the tracklisting to their latest effort being released very soon HERE.
Peanut Butter Wolf recently compiled a mixtape for the extensive series of upcoming music releases coming from Stones Throw Records in the year of 2011. The beginning of the mix includes two clips of the duo of MF Doom and Madlib known as Madvillain, and is the sample audio only YouTube clip provided above. This is a very long-awaited teaser that is a great gift from Peanut Butter Wolf, Madvillain, Stones Throw and everyone else involved with bringing us this to our ears. The entire podcast with these two tracks can be downloaded for free HERE.
Madvillain: Avalanche & Victory Lap Madlib: Two from Rock Konducta MED: Even Though & Play with You Dam-Funk feat. GT: Rest in Peace Dam-Funk: I Wanna Do Some Things Wit U Steve Arrington: Good Feeling & Higher Jonti Dan AKA Danimals: Hornets Nest & Christmas Worm The Stepkids: Shadows on Behalf & La La James Pants: Kathleen & Beta Vex Ruffin: Walking Sideways & Avalanche Myron & E: Let Me See You Do It & On Broadway CX Kidtronik feat. Jon Wayne: The Buddykrak CX Kidtronik feat. 4 5th: She’s A Murderer J. Rocc: Rocchead’s Delight & Supersound Anika: Terry & No One’s There Mayer Hawthorne: Drums (Demo) Bryant K Steward: Daisy’s Grow Unknown Artist: Same Thing Tomorrow
In 2005, lead singer of The Mars Volta released a 45″ release through GSL records, each side containing one piece. I bought the entire 45′ collection when it came out and was always intrigued by the origins of the recordings. I found an extended version of the front side online, the original running at half the time as this extended version. Recently Ceric Bixler Zavala released info on these recordings via an Italian fan site for Mars Volta. The backside piece Sapt-Loka is an incredible sound piece, check these out if you never heard about this material. ~ Erik Otis
i haven not heard the entire version in a long time. i only have like a couple hundred copies left in a box in my garage. this is my failed attempt at ghost noted shuffeling tony allen beats! ha! there is a digital tabla machine running through some dd-5 delay pedal that is being played by a mini hand held tape recorder playing through out! i wrote the bass line…hummed it to juan…omar came up with the guitar and chorus section and adrian played flute on it. it was squeezed in during tracking drums for amputechture, and rushed..very very rushed.i had other parts and chorus bits but i didn’t want to get in the way of the record(studio time is expensive!) the samples are from 2 places and they have nothing to do with crypto samples…the crypto samples are real conversation that omar recorded of himself and the infamous ralph jasso. on ‘private booths’ the samples at the start are from a interview with a psychic who participated in the ‘montauk project’…i sampled it from a uk tv show called disinformation(rip!) the episode talks about how the government used this chair for psychics in a lab in the east coast(nj or nw?) it was used for time travel. apart from hunting down nazi gold, as one of it’s missions… this particular mission was to find jesus on the cross and take some of his blood back to the future. the other sample is from a movie called shock corridors by the late sam fuller side 2 sapta loka is a bit of an homage to ambient german music from the 70s….its one long drone spliced in 4 places and stacked on each other playing at the same time. a shitty casio and a banged up chaos pad(very 2005!) are being run and its all recorded through a hand held mini recorder dumped onto a protools file.its supposed to sound like that and for those of u with no patience…yes nothing does happen thats the point. for those of u who liked it thank you.(…) omar co wrote the piece.
One of the newest additions to the Anticon roster, Baths has released a brand new remix for the sonic duo known as Themselves (Doseone and Jel). This track was co-premiered on two sites today, one being Altered Zones and the other Yours Truly. This is what both articles had to say about this remix:
Themselves, the duo of Doseone and Jel, former possessors of the heaviest handle in hip-hop history, Deep Puddle Dynamics (sorry Leaders of the New Cool), recently re-released their CrownsDown LP with help from some pretty cool company. Anticon’s barely-of-age ace, Baths, takes “DeadCatClear II”– a song about playing caretaker to a stray cat’s corpse as a child– and shoves it kicking and snaring into an etch-a-sketch for a righteous shaking and re-routing of its insides. Gross. (Yours Truly co-premiere)
Our free download this month delivers a lesson in Afro-Cuban swing. Digging deep in the vaults of the legendary Tico label, we found an electrifying version of the Cuban standard “Babarabatiri.” The timbales of Tito Puente are at the forefront here, as is the throaty vocalizing of Santitos Colón. From the 1963 LP In Puerto Rico. Enjoy.
Words: Shawn Reynaldo
LA beat wizard Flying Lotus has kept himself busy in 2010, touring constantly and releasing the much-lauded Cosmogramma album. Apparently, the man plans to keep grinding, as earlier today he announced the upcoming release of a new EP. Entitled Pattern+GridWorld, the seven-track EP is scheduled for release September 21 on Warp. We’re anxiously awaiting its arrival, but in the meantime, he’s passed along one track, “Camera Day,” for folks to gnaw on.
Temporary Residence Limited band Maserati are setting to release a new full length and Pitchfork has released a track from this album. This band is one of those kind of math rock bands that has always remained fresh and unique in the way they approach the much explored side genres of post rock music. Maserati is from Athens, Georgia and their style of post rock blends tight grooves with wild intermingling guitar and bass harmonies. Looking forward to this record. ~ Erik Otis
It is getting closer to the release of Teebs’ first full length on the prestigious FlyLo label Brainfeeder. The tracks released so far are amazing, really chill sounds for many occasions and many different types of people. Teebs will be doing a two person art showing through Sound Colour Vibration and and Division 9 Gallery in Riverside, CA the first week of October before Teebs’ album drops. Riverside native DemonSlayer will be the other artist displaying works. Both artists are equally representing their vision through sound and color, an area of artistic influence that drives us to do what we do. Full details on the show coming soon! Until than, don’t miss out on this free download. ~ Erik Otis
Download the mp3 of Why Like This? from the link below:
Guitar guru Marnie Stern is setting to release a new full length on Kill Rock Stars Records October 5, 2010. Her first record was a whirlwind of sonic expansion, guitar lines lunching in directions of the mix unfathomable in non contemporary music. The track released sounds amazing, very layered, focused yet spontaneous around the edges. Marnie Stern is one of a kind, she keeps that element a reality. ~ Erik Otis
A new track off the upcoming Teebs album was released 6 days ago from LA Times. His first full length record, Ardour will be the next Brainfeeder release after two heavy albums, Lorns last full length ‘Nothing Else’ and the Flying Lotus masterpiece ‘Cosmogramma’. This track sounds incredible mix wise, and I can only imagine how well the album is going to be constructed and the kind of color that will emerge from track to track. Arthur’s Birds begins with a rich tapestry of sounds that rise to the surface into what feels like a mirror hitting light in all directions. Bright moments fill this piece, I feel large amounts of inspiration from this sound; love, tranquility, dedication and life all center into to the core. The drums sound solid and hit a bottom end that makes the music flow. Teebs is releasing vibrations this world needs, buy his record in October, I know I will. ~ Erik Otis
Taken from the forthcoming Teebs album ‘Ardour’, released on Brainfeeder on 11 October. Free download of this track at LA Times.
Released by: BRAINFEEDER
Release/catalogue number: BFDNL010
Release date: Oct 12, 2010
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